Example APA Style: Conference paper

Proceedings are contributions to scientific conferences, congresses, symposiums or meetings. They often are published bundled and are formally published in a book or in periodicals. This represents a report about what has been discussed during a particular conference. The APA Style has specific rules for the notation of proceedings or conference papers.

Chapter of proceedings in a book

APA-format

AuthorLastname, FirstInitial. (Year). TitleConferencePaper. In Editor1Initial. Editor1LastName & Editor2Initial. Editor2Lastname. (Ed.), TitleProceedings (pp. Firstpage–Lastpage). City, State/Country: NamePublisher. (instead of the publisher you can also use the URL or doi)

AuthorLastName, FirstInitial. (Year). TitleConferencePaper. TitleProceedings, volume, Firstpage-LastPage. doi:DoiNumber (instead of using the doi, you can also use the URl: “Retrieved from http://Website”)

In reference list

Tattersall, I. (2009). Human origins: Out of Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 16018-16021. doi:10.1073/pnas.0903207106

In the text

The paper from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America suggests that … (Tattersall, 2009).